Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Only hummingbird breeds in abundance east of the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic, south to the Gulf coast.
Scissor Tailed Flycatcher. Found in semi-open country. Breeds in Texas through Kansas and parts of Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana.
Photos Courtesy: Dr. David McDonald, Gulf Coast Bird Observatory,
Lake Jackson, TX.
Summer Tanager. Breeds in lower half (approx.) of the United States. Common in pine oak woods in the East, in Cottonwood groves in the West. Range shrinking in the E
ast.
Worm eating Warbler. Migrates Gulf Coast through Florida. Breeds north to Missouri, east to the Atlantic; North roughly to New York
Purple Gallinule. Favors overgrown swamps, lagoons, marshes. Breeds southeast Texas, Gulf coast through Florida, parts of the southern Atlantic coast.
Red Shouldered Hawk. Year round, sometimes summer, in forests near water along southern California coast and eastern half of US
American Redstart. Breeds throughout the eastern half of the United States (except Florida) up the Mississippi River states through upper Great Plains states, and throughout Canada.
Bay-Breasted Warbler. Breeding area northern most United States east of the Mississippi river in to Canada
Blue-Winged Warbler. Center to middle eastern half of the United States. Typically not in states below Tennessee.
Painted Bunting. ___ __ __ Breeds in Texas & Louisiana, up through Oklahoma, Arkansas to parts of Missouri and Kansas.
Wilson Plover. Declining with loss of barrier islands, sandy beaches, and mud flats. Breeds along coast from Texas to New Jersey.
-Wild birds for the 21st Century 
